Nonlinear optical properties of organic materials KU Leuven
This doctoral project is situated in the field of experimental non-linear optics. A well-known non-linear optical effect is frequency doubling, where incoming light with frequency w is converted by a material into light with frequency 2w. This effect is of great importance in photonics where photons instead of electrons are used to transmit information. Applications include light switches for telecommunications, quantum cryptography, quantum ...